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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Nadine Gordimer

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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer

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